Trevor W's 100 Gallon Build Thread 48"L x 24"W x 20"H
 

Some of you may know about my tank from my other thread titled "Hardscape", where in I posted some photos of my rock work in hopes of getting some feedback.

Long story short the tank was tore down twice since than and has now been officially started. So with that I would like to start an actual build thread. Please feel free to ask question or give feed back either positive or negative don't much matter to me! :biggrin:

Looks great man! i like the idea hiding the wires in that bench, nicely done with the switch panel. Can't wait to see the tank grow, keep the updates coming!

Thanks! yeah wire management was a huge thing to me. I will also be using electrical raceway to finish hiding all the remaining exposed wiring such as the cords from the lights, tunze 6105 and 7096 that you can see on the wall behind the bench. Still lots of finishing and cleaning up to do.

Looks great! That bench is a fantastic idea.

Yup that hiding the electrical under the bench is awesome and love the lighting idea for the sump

Awesome build..Super clean looking.

Great idea on the bench as well. Love you rock work as well.

I love your dimensions! definitely a well thought out build,i will follow along with your progression!

~Tony

Looking good man. Great selection of equipment.

Like to aqua scape.

Any plans yet as to stocking or pewpewing

That rock work is very cool & you know that I think the bench is badazz!!

Thank You!

Thank You! Both are just cheap purchases from wal-mart

Thank You! Its still fairly unorganized but I am hoping to really clean it up over the next couple of days.

Thank You Tony! Also welcome to Canreef glad to see you are a sponsor here and from what I have seen an active one aswell. I cant wait to place an order with you guys once I can start stocking.

Thank You Kien! Although its not the high $$$$ stuff its definatly a great middle ground for me and so far I couldnt be happier. Just hope that someday I can make this thing look half as good as your 150 :biggrin:
Thak You! Well for fish I have only really decided on a couple of things, 5or6 blueégreen chromis, a harem of lyretail anthias, a pair of tomato clowns, some wrasses (undecided) I would love a red stripe or a half black angel but maybe Ill save that fish for a future FOWLR tank. Pretty generic fish list.

For coral Ill be mainly focusing on sps, zoanthids, and a couple focal point LPS. But the main coral population will be sps.

Thanks Grizz! I only wish I had room to put one on the other side of the tank to house ATO, media reactors and future dosing pumps and containers.

Like many said already, super clean and planned out. I like the idea of having the overflow on the side and not the back for your tank placement situation.
-Long

Thank You Long! When I started thinking of how I wanted the tank I seen a couple tanks that had this same placement and I instantly switched it from having it external on the back pane. It allowed me to go the full 24" front to back. Also it will allow me to situate it as a peninsula tank if I ever choose to. I really like the look of seeing the wall behind the tank with no cords or mess really gives it alot more depth as apposed to having the back pane blacked out. But to each there own.

Great dimensions - the same as my new tank! :D Mine is 24" high and 20" wide though.

I like what you did with the sitting bench! I was going to build a cabinet to sit beside my new tank, but you have me thinking of other ideas now too.

Thank You! Glad I could give you some ideas.

Where did you get the tank built?

Right on bro!! Tank is coming along nicely, love te bench idea, will have to stop by for a coffee this week. I'm not posting pics of my 65g build lol not as clean as yours lol

Chris W

I got the tank built by Concept.

Thanks Bro!
You should be documenting your build! I am sure lots of people would love to see it including me. You have a laundry room behind your tank where as mine is in the spare bedroom or as the wife calls it "your fish room" lol so you only have to worry about making the front look purdy. Start snapping photos with that nice fancy camera.

Nice, I'm trying to decide on dimensions for a new tank and get one built. I would like one of their tanks but Concept has teamed up with the LFS that doesn't exist in my world.

Me and Trevor got out tanks through Concept via Colby.

Hey Trev lets take a rip to Saskatoon this weekend

Did you see the coral pics Colby posted on Facebook. Ya if I had a truck there wouldn't be an issue would just pick up in stoon

If you can convince my wife than I'm in LOL

I squeezed my tank with sump inside of tank into the back of my 2009 Honda CRV. Literally couldn't of been an inch bigger or it wouldnt of fit. When it comes to a new custom built tank there is always a way:biggrin:

Those pics that Colby posted are :jaw:

Colby's pics were woweeee

DIY Screen Top
 

Michaels craft store should carry what your looking for I've found about a third of the stuff I need from them....

I have a role of the stuff here. I could send you some, but last time I checked it was something like $15 to ship it because of the tube I'd have to put it in... but more than willing.

By any chance could u post what the roll looks like and the label?

Ya sure. This is the stuff I have and got from Home Hardware:

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It is a shade of grey but fairly fine thread so there's very little light loss.

Thank you very much that's excellent !!

Bayside corals

Thank you Daplatapus for the generous offer and for posting those pics it is greatly appreciated! I may have sourced some locally. Yet another reason why this forum is such a great resource.

Thank you Lockrookie for the suggestion! My brother is going to bayside tomorrow and he may just be bringing me back a piece.

For all the prarie people there is a guy in stoon building tanks now.just thought I'd throw it out there

Media Reactors
 

I recently purchased my second Vertex Rx-U 1.5 media reactor. I also purchased a bag of Vertex ROX 0.8 activated carbon. Anyone that has used or seen this carbon will know just how small the grains are. I instantly foreseen a problem with the size of the pores of the supplied sponges VS the size of the grains of carbon. Sure enough upon filling the reactor with 100ml of ROX it instantly started working its way into and through the factory sponges. A quick google search turned up nothing. I than remembered that I had a couple small sheets of Poret foam. It is often used in the freshwater side of the hobby and it truly is the best foam to use in any aquarium application. Seemed like a no brainer. Who would of thought that after spending $$$ on media reactors I would be having to DIY it to properly work with the same brand of carbon lol.

Nicely done bro, I will replace my 2lf sponges with that foam

Thanks! Poret foam is defiantly not the cheapest solution but by far the best option. IMO
A less costly option would be if you could find a hydro sponge filter sponge that would fit nicely around the inner tube of the reactor and than just cut the height to whatever you wanted and trim the outside diameter to fit.

Great build love your tank dimension and I dig your rock work. Im a big fan of vertex skimmers they work excellent and never give you problems.
Keep it up:biggrin: